Best Image Recognition Companies in Australia
The 44 best Image Recognition companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kollakorn.
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Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kollakorn Developer of biometric authentication, waste conversion, and tamper-evident RFID tagging | $4M | 142 mo ago | Public | — | 1993 | — | — |
| 2 | PayOK Payment fraud prevention solutions | $2M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Colin Porter Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 3 | Daltrey Biometric cyber-defense solutions | $2M | 61 mo ago | Seed | Blair Crawford Co-Founder & CEO | 2001 | — | — |
| 4 | locii Solutions for personal data security & identity theft | $2M | 78 mo ago | Funding Raised | Mike Simpson Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 5 | AuditCover Online tax audit insurance platform for individuals and businesses | $2M | 53 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | SentrySalesforceTailwind CSS+8 | — |
| 6 | Xailient Provider of computer vision-powered facial recognition solutions for edge devices | $1M | 84 mo ago | Seed | Shivy Yohanandan Co-Founder & CTO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — |
| 7 | xLabs Eye-gaze tracking technology solutions | $370K | 129 mo ago | Funding Raised | Joe Hanna Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Shelfie Provider of automated shelf-stock audits for offline stores | — | 75 mo ago | Series A | Giuseppe Porcelli Founder & Chairman | 2017 | — | — |
Top 9 Image Recognition companies in Australia
#1
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 12 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Online tax audit insurance platform for individuals and businesses. It offers insurance product that protects accounting firms, financial planners. advisers, service providers. It offers insurance claims support solutions for users.
- Mar 2022Seed$1.7M
#2
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021 · 19 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Payment fraud prevention solutions. The company offers solutions to verify the supplier's bank account details before making a payment, ensuring funds go to the correct account, every time. Features include supplier onboarding, supplier bank verification, risk analysis, and ongoing alerts.
- Nov 2021Seed$2.1M
#3
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2001 · 14 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Biometric cyber-defense solutions. It provides users with a biometric cyber-defense platform that designs and delivers biometric authentication tools to support government and enterprise organizations protect against cyber threats. It also offers biometric identity systems, identity management, access management, and security compliance. The technology eliminates the use of usernames, passwords, access cards, PINs, and any physical system from the authentication.
- Jul 2021Seed$600K
- Mar 2020Seed$1.5M
#4
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018$1.9Mraised▾
Locii provides solutions for personal data security and identity theft. The product offers a platform that provides deep fake detection and risk mitigation. It also provides solutions by replacing passwords with biometrics authentication. It uses blockchain technology to analyze risks in transactions.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$1.9M
#5
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 1993 · 1 employees$4Mraised▾
Developer of biometric authentication, waste conversion, and tamper-evident RFID tagging. The company provides technology for biometric information authentication. It also offers waste-to-energy conversion solutions. Furthermore, the company develops break-on-removal RFID tags for asset security. The company’s products and services support smart city development.
- Sep 2014Post IPO$13.1K
- Apr 2007Post IPO$2.9M
- Dec 2006Post IPO$862.4K
- Nov 2005Post IPO$257.9K
#6
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 23 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of computer vision-powered facial recognition solutions for edge devices. It provides users with a computer vision platform that can be used in multiple applications, like retail analytics, inventory management, and theft prevention. Its features include real-time object detection, low power consumption, selective attention, and plug and play operation.
- Aug 2019Seed$155K
#7
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2012$370Kraised▾
Eye-gaze tracking technology solutions. Its software is based on machine learning algorithms and works with any webcam and offers real-time tracking without restricting the user movement. The software can capture gaze, head and face gestures and expressions. The company offers its gaze-tracking software SDK to developers and an extension for Google Chrome.
- Nov 2015Grant (prize money)$350K
- 2014Grant (prize money)$20K
#8
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 9 employees—raised▾
Shelfie Retail is a provider of automated shelf-stock audits for offline stores. It automatically monitors shelf stock and alerts the staff on inventory. The company uses AI and deep learning technologies to view shelves through the cameras mounted on the retail shelf. The camera takes the images and sends them to the cloud-based image processing algorithm. Once an event is detected the data is sent to the dashboard and mobile app.
- May 2020Series A—
- Jun 2017Seed—
#9
Late Stage · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017—raised▾
MTHL provides tokenization solutions for mobile transactions. It links multiple transaction identifiers into a single code through scanners and readable token systems. Its multi-token system enables payments with fraud prevention and security. It offers bCode a static token and bCode Scanner for offline de-tokenizing of the MTHL token.
- Sep 2019PE—
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How research on Computer Vision is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Computer Vision — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 788 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London117
- University of Technology Sydney53
- Monash University48
- UNSW Sydney43
- Australian National University40
- Pattern recognition (psychology)16→72
- Segmentation7→51
- Convolutional neural network25→65
- Robustness (evolution)4→38
- Feature (linguistics)7→36
- Pattern recognition (psychology)6→29
- Segmentation3→24
- Convolutional neural network7→20
- Artificial neural network1→12
- Feature extraction1→5
- Convolutional neural network8
- Key (lock)7
- Benchmark (surveying)5
- Field (mathematics)4
- Sampling (signal processing)4
Where computer vision is researched across Australia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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